So a friend sent me a link to a NY Time article about working with your hands and how sweet it is. And I totally agree.  Growing up I used to build model cars, planes, robots, X-Wings, TIE fighter’s, etc.  Lego’s too.  We had nice garage full of tools, and I would play back there.  During college I managed to rewire a 1966 Ford Mustang.  Got it running.  That was so awesome.

After I got my engineering degree, I got a job and sit in front of a computer and program all day.  Its almost, but not quite, entirely unlike working with your hands.  You type out code with your hands to create a virtual machine.  I miss making real machines.  Though, after I make the models or robot kits, I never did anything with it.  Usually just threw it away, because the process of putting real physical objects together to form another physical object was the most fun.  So over the weekend I went to Fry’s and got a Tamiya Bull Dozer kit.  Its a very easy, basic kit.  There is a wired remote control that sends power to three little motors. Moves the arm up and down and the tracks forward or backward.  Here’s a little video of it in action for my Pop.

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